- Tanzania Tourist Board ((TTB) will soon develop more cultural tourism in other parts of the country to help local communities improve their economic livelihood by engaging in tourism activities.
The move is aimed at ensuring that local people provide services to tourists from different countries visiting the country.
Cultural tourism is a community-based tourism approach in which the local people are directly involved in designing, organising tours and showing tourists aspects of their lives in the areas they live in.
TTB Acting Managing Director Devotha Mdachi told The Guardian on Sunday that there was great interest in developing cultural tourism in the Lake Zone, the Southern Circuit and Coastal areas than the Northern Tourist Circuit.
“We want to help local communities living in tourist attraction areas to have various tourism project s that will help them earn their income and improve their lives” he said.
At the moment TTB has over 60 cultural tourism enterprises located mostly in the Northern Circuit and efforts are under way on how to implement such a programme.
He said the TTB wants people to set up cultural tourism enterprises in areas where they are so that international tourists visit their places to experience unique insights of landscape, ways of life and other issues relating to cultural tourism.
According to her, Cultural Tourism in Tanzania enables tourists to experience the local people's ways of life, offering insights into the values, beliefs and traditions in host communities' own environment while economic benefit is derived from such activities to local communities.
Meanwhile, the TTB Cultural Tourism Programme-Coordinator Elirehema Maturo added that right now a total of 4000 local people from different regions have been benefited from direct income from cultural tourism activities all over the country.
Cultural tourism is a community-based tourism approach in which the local people are directly involved in designing, organising tours and showing tourists aspects of their lives in the areas they live in.
TTB Acting Managing Director Devotha Mdachi told The Guardian on Sunday that there was great interest in developing cultural tourism in the Lake Zone, the Southern Circuit and Coastal areas than the Northern Tourist Circuit.
“We want to help local communities living in tourist attraction areas to have various tourism project s that will help them earn their income and improve their lives” he said.
At the moment TTB has over 60 cultural tourism enterprises located mostly in the Northern Circuit and efforts are under way on how to implement such a programme.
He said the TTB wants people to set up cultural tourism enterprises in areas where they are so that international tourists visit their places to experience unique insights of landscape, ways of life and other issues relating to cultural tourism.
According to her, Cultural Tourism in Tanzania enables tourists to experience the local people's ways of life, offering insights into the values, beliefs and traditions in host communities' own environment while economic benefit is derived from such activities to local communities.
Meanwhile, the TTB Cultural Tourism Programme-Coordinator Elirehema Maturo added that right now a total of 4000 local people from different regions have been benefited from direct income from cultural tourism activities all over the country.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
No comments :
Post a Comment